ETF comparison
COWZ vs QQQ
Quality Factor vs US Large Cap Growth.
Holdings overlap
19 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of COWZ and QQQ would leave roughly 6.3% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Unmatched is the part of a fund's weight the other fund doesn't match: names only it holds, plus any extra weight it puts in names both funds hold.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
QQQ is 31 bps cheaper than COWZ. On a $100,000 position that's about $310/yr more in fees for COWZ.
Fee figure is the annual expense charged on $100,000. To see how the gap compounds over a multi-decade holding period, open the cost calculator pre-filled with COWZ vs QQQ.
Top shared holdings
19 shared in total| # | Holding | In COWZ | In QQQ | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | QUALCOMM Inc | 1.31% | 0.84% | 0.84% |
| 2 | T-Mobile US Inc | 1.85% | 0.79% | 0.79% |
| 3 | Gilead Sciences Inc | 1.93% | 0.68% | 0.68% |
| 4 | Booking Holdings Inc | 2.22% | 0.60% | 0.60% |
| 5 | Automatic Data Processing Inc | 1.66% | 0.39% | 0.39% |
| 6 | Comcast Corp | 1.92% | 0.38% | 0.38% |
| 7 | Adobe Inc | 1.90% | 0.36% | 0.36% |
| 8 | Intuit Inc | 2.04% | 0.31% | 0.31% |
| 9 | Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc | 1.36% | 0.28% | 0.28% |
| 10 | PACCAR Inc | 1.05% | 0.27% | 0.27% |
| 11 | Airbnb Inc | 1.54% | 0.26% | 0.26% |
| 12 | Diamondback Energy Inc | 1.49% | 0.21% | 0.21% |
Only in COWZ
81 total- Bristol-Myers Squibb Co 2.18%
- HCA Healthcare Inc 2.07%
- Marathon Petroleum Corp 2.06%
- General Dynamics Corp 2.05%
- Verizon Communications Inc 1.97%
- AT&T Inc 1.95%
- Uber Technologies Inc 1.90%
- Salesforce Inc 1.90%
- Lowe's Cos Inc 1.89%
- Ford Motor Co 1.88%
Only in QQQ
83 total- NVIDIA Corp. 7.60%
- Apple Inc. 6.67%
- Micron Technology, Inc. 5.64%
- Microsoft Corp. 4.35%
- Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. 4.10%
- Amazon.com, Inc. 4.02%
- Tesla, Inc. 3.30%
- Alphabet Inc. 3.27%
- Intel Corp. 3.04%
- Alphabet Inc. 3.02%
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- COWZ vs VB · Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap ETF 5.0%
- COWZ vs IWF · iShares Russell 1000 Growth ETF 2.4%
- COWZ vs IJH · iShares Core S&P Mid-Cap ETF 2.0%
- COWZ vs VUG · Vanguard Morningstar Growth ETF 1.8%
- COWZ vs IJR · iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF 0.0%
More comparisons with QQQ
- QQQ vs SPLV · Invesco S&P 500 Low Volatility ETF 6.1%
- QQQ vs IWR · iShares Russell Mid-Cap ETF 6.0%
- QQQ vs SCHD · Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF 4.8%
- QQQ vs VFLO · Victoryshares Free Cash Flow ETF 4.8%
- QQQ vs NOBL · ProShares S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats ETF 4.2%
- QQQ vs IWP · iShares Russell Mid-Cap Growth ETF 3.7%
Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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Holdings overlap is the sum of min(weight_a, weight_b) over positions
matched on ISIN (CUSIP fallback). Methodology: see
/methodology/.
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